Aug 12, 2017

In the United States, which contains eight percent of the
world's forests, there are more trees than there were a hundred
years ago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization,
"Forest growth nationally has exceeded harvest since the 1940s.
By 1997, forest growth exceeded harvest by 42 percent and the
volume of forest growth was 380 percent greater than it had been
in 1920."

The U.S. had 319
million people in 2014 and 228 billion trees. The greatest gains
have been seen on the East Coast, with average volumes of wood
per acre almost doubling since the 1950s. Over 75 percent of the
productive commercial forest land in the United States is
privately owned.In a study released
during 2015 in Nature, a team of 38 scientists found that the
planet is home to 3.04 trillion trees, far surpassing the
previously estimate of 400 billion. The researchers estimated
there are 422 trees for every person on Earth.